This Sunday marks the end of yet another awards season. The lead-up to the Oscars has been a curiously staid affair (you know there’s not much happening when so much hay gets made of something as unremarkable as Timothee Chalamet’s … Continue reading The Road to the 98th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners
Kink, consent, and queer self-acceptance create a complicated portrait of the relationship between a biker dom and a timid sub in Harry Lighton’s confident, accomplished feature debut Pillion. Taking place over one year, Lighton deftly brings us into the world … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Pillion (2025)
Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, and Frankenstein among the films aiming to be this year’s most-nominated. You can catch up … Continue reading 98th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread
Thursday morning at 8:30 EST, Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman will announce the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. 2025 was a big year for Hollywood, with the domestic market continuing to rebuild from the one-two punch of the Covid … Continue reading The Road to the 98th Oscars Part 1: Predicting the Nominees
It’s finally upon us! The 97th Academy Awards! Hollywood will descend upon the Dolby Theatre tomorrow night, and it’s likely to be the most exciting Oscars night in years for Academy obsessives like yours truly. This season has had few … Continue reading The Road to the 97th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners
Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Dune: Part Two, Wicked, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and The Brutalist among the films aiming to be this year’s most-nominated. You can catch up before the … Continue reading 97th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread
Yet again, the Oscar nominations are bearing down on us amidst significant upheaval in the film industry (and I don’t mean the appointment of Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and Jon Voight as “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood, presumably to revive the … Continue reading The Road to the 97th Oscars Part 1: Predicting the Nominees
It feels far too simplistic to describe Jacques Audiard’s audacious, genre-bending Emilia Pérez as “simply” a gender-affirming narco-thriller musical. It is definitely all of those things, but it also defies being put in any box, no matter how capacious. Emilia Pérez is … Continue reading Toronto International Film Festival 2024, Part 2: Days 6-8
The 49th Toronto International Film Festival kicked off with a whimper on September 5th with the world premiere of David Gordon Green’s latest (apparent) misfire, the Ben Stiller-starring Nutcrackers. Amidst the tumult of significant sponsors dropping (long-time year-round sponsor Bell … Continue reading Toronto International Film Festival 2024, Part 1: Days 1-5
There’s no easy way to say this: we’ve reached the end of the 2023-2024 awards season. Yes, tomorrow night is the big one, the last hurrah, the nerd Super Bowl, the 96th Academy Awards. Before you start to fret though, … Continue reading The Road to the 96th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners
Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, and Poor Things among the films aiming to be this year’s most-nominated. You can catch up … Continue reading 96th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread
Happy Oscar Nominations Eve! Twelve months have flown by, and Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid will be making the big announcement on Tuesday morning at 8:30 AM ET. It’s been an exceptionally odd year for film, with runaway successes (and … Continue reading The Road to the 96th Oscars Part 1: Nomination Predictions
The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival has officially come and gone, with this year’s People’s Choice Award going to Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut American Fiction, and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (see below) and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron … Continue reading Toronto International Film Festival 2023, Part 2: Days 4-8
After four long years away, I returned with Mama Mordor in tow to the Toronto International Film Festival at an acute transitional moment. Paralyzed by strikes from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA that contemptuous billionaire studio executives have shown remarkably little … Continue reading Toronto International Film Festival 2023, Part 1: Days 1-3
Bisexual Lighting: The Movie Continue reading LGBT Movies: Passages (2023)
Once in a blue moon, if you’re lucky, a book hits all the right notes: you pick it up, immediately dive deep into its world, fall hard for its characters, and don’t look back. For me, Casey McQuiston’s debut novel … Continue reading LGBT Books: Someday My Prince Will Come – “Red, White & Royal Blue” and Modern Gay Fairytales
Outfest LA 2023 formally ended on July 23 – though virtual screenings continue through July 30 – amidst major turmoil for the film industry. With the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America continuing to strike in the largest … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Outfest LA 2023, Part 2
Outfest LA 2023 opened on July 13 (virtual screenings start today, July 17) amidst major turmoil for the film industry. With the Screen Actors Guild joining the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike in the largest labor action in the … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Outfest LA 2023, Part 1
Happy Pride, everyone! Welcome back to the first ever (as far as I know!) poll of The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Books! In the end, 43 lists were submitted, comprising an unbelievable 257 books representing LGBT+ experiences of all stripes and … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Books: The Results
Welcome to the first ever (as far as I know!) poll of The Avocado’s favorite LGBT+ books! Over the next few weeks, the most astute readers anywhere on the internet (that’s you!) will be submitting their ballots, culminating at the … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Books: The Voting
Well Avocadoans, we’ve arrived at two important milestones in this year’s Oscars race: firstly, the Oscars air this Sunday! More importantly, though, after three years Covid has finally made its way to Barad-dûr and your pal Mordor is not a … Continue reading The Road to the 95th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners
